On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 13:04:53 -0500, Rick Fochtman wrote: >No disrespect intended, Paul. > Nor any perceived. You merely got tangled up in the evolution of the thread.
>Might I suggest that you use a batch TMP step, instead of IEBCOPY, and >XMIT the file to a sequential file? Then download the resulting >sequential file, in BINARY mode, to your PC. > I'm familiar with the technique. I use it regularly. I know it's the customary format of cbttape.org. Etc. We're in strong agreement about TRANSMIT. But the OP asked whether it is possible to FTP an IEBCOPY unloaded data set roundtrip to a PC intact. I answered, no, that even BINARY won't work. Others answered, taking my last phrase out of context, that BINARY always works, barring communications failures; that BINARY always correctly transmits the data correctly (but making execptions for "structure" and "metadata", which I consider essential to to the working of the overall process), and using phrases such as "[I] don't understand what [I'm] doing"; "sheer delusion and willful ignorance"; "shoot from the hip"; and insisting that only an AMASPZAP dump can show differences between two files, when differences are obvious in ISPF BROWSE. Much in there I find disrespectful. Thanks for your help: the kind good intentions in this case and the valuable substance when I'm truly lost. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
